"Master, master! There is a letter from Qinghe County!"

Outside Shangjing City, Cui Xiaoyi hurried to Qu Baiyu's destination.

Holding the letter he got from Wei Miaozhen in his hand, he rushed towards Qu Baiyu's residence while shouting.

"Sir, Sister Miaozhen received news that at the pawn shop in Qinghe County, we received a letter from our hidden stake. Someone came to pawn with a palace-style hairpin!"

Before he could reach the door, the wooden door suddenly opened wide. Qu Baiyu's naturally indifferent face was now slightly panicked. He grabbed Cui Xiaoyi's shoulders and asked eagerly: "What did you say? Say it again? Palace style?"

Cui Xiaoyi replied excitedly: "Yes, it's a palace-style hairpin! Sister Miaozhen has ordered them to detain the person... Huh? Sir, wait a minute..."

Before Cui Xiaoyi could finish speaking, Qu Baiyu immediately asked someone to lead the horse and ran out.

Qinghe County.

The old woman waited for a long time but did not see the shopkeeper appear again, so her mentality collapsed and she said angrily to the waiter: "Can you be a good person? How much can you be a good person? You can tell me! If you really don't like this item, Just give it back to me. You neither say you want it nor say you don’t want it, so what? Do you want to have an affair?!"

The old woman's noise was so loud that the shopkeeper finally walked out from the inner courtyard.

"My guest, don't be anxious!"

"Don't be anxious? You guys are really annoying! If you want it, just give me a quick word!"

The old woman couldn't tolerate him at all.

The shopkeeper smiled deeply, touched his beard, and rolled his eyes again.

"Yes, we want it! However, we have to find out the source of the things we collect... After all, we are all serious businesses. I wonder where you got this hairpin?"

The old woman looked at the shopkeeper carefully up and down, and the expression on her face became profound.

She paused, but what she said was not honest. "This is something from when I was old and young, what? It doesn't look like it?"

The shopkeeper smiled, took the hairpin and said: "I'm sorry, but the guest officer seems to be old enough to know his destiny. The style of this hairpin has only become popular in the past two years, and the materials used for workmanship are also very particular... Sir, please don't make fun of others."

The old woman sneered and snatched the hairpin away.

"Since you don't believe it, then I've done something wrong!"

After she said that, she turned around to leave, but she didn't realize that the shopkeeper behind her had turned gloomy.

The shopkeeper could only be heard whispering: "Someone, take it down!"

The old woman's vision went dark, and she was actually packed up in a sack. When she could see her again, she had been sent to a secret prison.

There was no light in the prison, and only the faint light of the torch could be seen outside the prison, where the shopkeeper was wearing a hoodie.

The old woman sat cross-legged on the straw mat, her tone always calm.

"I have lived this long and have never seen any big storms. But at the end of the day, I let a little bastard plot against me! After all, it's not like I have never been in jail!"

She said, pointing to the people outside, with a hint of giving orders.

"You'd better serve me with wine, meat and food, otherwise, when that kid behind you comes, you will be in trouble!"

Those words shocked everyone outside the prison.

Not only did she know that there was someone behind them, but she also knew that that person was still young?

Everyone looked at each other and then looked at the leading pawnshop owner. The owner pondered for a moment, lowered his head and told her, "Don't make things difficult for her. We'll wait until I get here to talk about everything!" and then left.

Black clouds appeared in the sky, one in two, gradually turning the entire sky black, and the stars dotting it were sparsely exposed.

The woods were quiet at night, and a sound of horse hooves sounded urgently, and the wind and waves that passed through the woods were like the sound of gluttonous eating.

Greenery and night flow silently, permeating the night and dawn in the mountains...

Qinghe County is actually not too far from Shangjing City. Qu Baiyu worked hard for more than a day and finally arrived before dawn on the second day.

After he dismounted, he ran straight to the secret cell. The guard was startled. When he saw the person clearly, Qu Baiyu had already walked to the cage where the old woman was imprisoned.

The guard hurriedly went to wake up the old woman. The old woman rubbed her sleepy eyes and started yelling curses before she could see the person clearly.

"Don't you have any elderly people in your family? You wake up in the middle of the night. You don't get up so early even for funerals!"

The guard was humiliated by the scolding, and just as he was about to give her some relief, Qu Baiyu stopped him. Giving him a look, the guard withdrew his handsome face.

Qu Baiyu asked: "Where did you get that thing?"

The old woman raised her eyelids slightly, snorted coldly, and did not answer.

Cui Xiaoyi became anxious and said: "Old woman, don't be shameless! Do you know who we are? We are so unruly, do we have to be tortured to be honest?!"

The old woman raised her head suddenly, and her wrinkled face darkened instantly.

"You brat, when your grandma and I were all-powerful, your dad was still sucking milk!

Torture? OK, use it! The worst case scenario is that if you kill this old bone like me, your master will no longer know where that girl has gone! "

As soon as he heard the word "girl", Qu Baiyu immediately became anxious, grabbed the cage fence and said, "Old man, what do you think that girl looks like?"

Seeing his appearance, the old woman seemed a little satisfied, but she still looked like she was deliberately not saying anything, making it difficult for him to say: "Why should I tell you?"

As she spoke, she spread her hands and said, "Do you want to sleep comfortably in this cell?"

Qu Baiyu paused for a moment, then ordered: "Open the door and ask the old man to come out."

Cui Xiaoyi was stunned and hesitated: "Master, this old...she doesn't look honest..."

But seeing Qu Baiyu insisting, Cui Xiaoyi couldn't say anything and hurriedly asked others to do it.

The old woman snorted coldly and was helped out of the cell.

Qu Baiyu said: "Old man, you can ask for anything you want. As long as you tell me where she went and what kind of request she has, I will satisfy you!"

The old woman smiled, looked at him carefully, and nodded with some satisfaction, "She is really talented and has extraordinary bearing. But, how can you be sure that the girl I mentioned is the one you are looking for?"

Qu Baiyu was slightly sluggish, he was actually not sure.

Except for concubines, only princesses would wear palace-style hair accessories. There was no princess fiefdom in Qinghe County, but such a hairpin suddenly appeared. With a tiny bit of hope, he just felt that maybe it was the Yuan Tong'er who "can't be seen alive or dead".

He sent people to look for her afterwards and wanted to bury her as a wife, but he could never find any trace of her.

But the more that happened, the more stubborn he became in thinking that Yuan Tong'er must be just like the last time, but clever enough to escape with death. He always felt that Yuan Tong'er might still be alive. There was no delay in finding her.

Compared to the past two or three months, when there had been no news at all, this little bit of hope now had already stirred up quite a stir in his heart.

He squeezed his palms, and even though he only had one thousandth of hope in his heart, he still said resolutely: "You will have to find her to find out whether it is her!"

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